Tag Archives: New gTLDs

Sun 20th April 2014
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How Many Letters On To The Right of a Dot is Too Many To Be A Hack? - A domain name hack has traditionally used ccTLD’s to form words and made it a brandable domain. Some of the more famous hacks are bit.ly, and del.icio.us instagram.com started out as instagr.am But now with the new gTLD’s people are using them to form words with longer extensions to the right of the dot. So .Land with 4 characters to the right of the dot, has become a popular hack in terms of registrations with domains like statenis.land, virginis.land, fireis.land as well as lake.land just tot ... read more ...
Sat 19th April 2014
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KeyBiscayne Gets Creative with .Email - The people behind KeyBiscayne.org are offering residents the opportunity to get their own KeyBiscayne.email address. Posted on their website: KeyBiscayne.org was selected to manage the email address of the Island Paradise.  Key Biscayne residents and businesses have the exclusive right to use the address @keybiscayne.email and have the option to receive VIP offers sent only to @keybiscayne.email address (optional, you can opt-out of this benefit). Thanks to its exclusivity, you can have your perfect ... read more ...
Fri 18th April 2014
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Have Your Opinions Changed or Stayed The Same on a New gTLDs ? - Raymond: for many/most of these registrations, that registrant is the only person in the universe who wants it. That doesn’t make it a domain name that has any value as an investment. Let me try to elaborate, as this topic of “domain name liquidity” and its relationship with valuation is something that I’ve been thinking about for a while. Domain names (like some other assets, e.g. art) have widely varying privately-held valuations by individuals in the marketplace for their own use. ... read more ...
Wed 16th April 2014
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Mr.Berkens Regs The First Uniregistry Domain of a Day on What Was A Busy Day - It was a busy day today for Frank Schilling and his company Uniregistry, as five uncontested strings went live at around 12 noon Eastern time. The strings that went live today were the following: .Pics, .Photo, .Gift, .Link and .Guitars. Out the gate at 12:03 Frank tweeted: .photo past 1000 — Frank Schilling (@Frank_Schilling) April 15, 2014 Pretty quickly there were 2000 regs between Link, Pics and Photo. Frank tweeted his thoughts later in the day with regard to .Link and received a differing ... read more ...
Tue 15th April 2014
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.Buzz May Have The Strangest List Of 100 Reserved Domains Of All New gTLD’s - .Buzz goes live today and like all new gTLD registries they are entitled to keep 100 domains for their own use for marketing and other purposes, but going through the list of .Buzz reserved domains it maybe the strangest list of 100 (actually 85 by my count) that I have seen for any registry. Bill Doshier who owns the DotStrategy the company which applied to operate the .Buzz registry is one of the nicest guys you will ever meet, but having reviewed a bunch of these 100 domain registry reserved lists, ... read more ...
Mon 14th April 2014
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Big Week For New gTLD’s Including .Buzz, .Link, .Pics & 1st Singular/Plural Battle - Its a big week in new gTLD world as 14 new domain name extensions go live, as they become available to be registered on a first come, first served basis. Here are some of the extensions going live starting tomorrow: .BUZZ .Pics .Guitars .Gift .Link .Holiday .Marketing .ONL .Pink .Red .Blue .Kim and two IDN’s Also of note this will be the first time that a singular/plural new gTLD will be live. .Photos has over 9,300 registrations and is the 16th most popular new gTLD domain extension. .Photo which ... read more ...
 
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.Guru Becomes 1st New gTLD To Pass 50,000 Registrations - .Guru has just become the first new gTLD to pass 50,000 registrations according to ntldstats.com .Berlin is firmly in the number 2 spot and might pass .Guru shortly. .Photography has passed 30,000 registrations and .Email has quickly jumped into 4th place with over 22,000 domains .Tips rounds out the top 5 There are now 14 new gTLD’s that have 10,000 or more registrations. Interesting to note that Uniregistry’s .Sexy which got off to a slow start has made it into the top 20. There are now over ... read more ...
Thu 10th April 2014
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Famous Four Wins .Party - Famous Four Media, the registry operator for Domain Venture Partners announce today that is has resolved contention set for the new generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) .PARTY. Domain Venture Partners along with Blue Sky Registry came to an “agreement” with the other applicant for .Party, Oriental Trading Company, Inc whereby Oriental Trading Company, Inc has agreed to withdraw its application. Domain Venture Partners looks forward to launching and operating the .PARTY gTLD for the benefit of all ... read more ...
 
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CentralNic acquires resources of DomiNIC GmbH - CentralNic publicly traded on the AIM Exchange under the symbol CNIC, announced an acquisition of the assets of  DomiNIC GmbH. Since 1994 DomiNIC has been continually developed into an all-round domain and DNS management system with integrated customer and user administration. In January 2014 CentralNic acquired all rights to the DomiNIC software with the intent of offering this solution to a wider market and combining its existing technology with the DomiNIC software to continue its tradition of ... read more ...
Tue 8th April 2014
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Uniregistry Gets 300+ Sunrise .Gift Registrations As J&J Goes In Heavy But Don’t Buy Me These - Uniregistry’s new gTLD .Gift has over 300 Sunrise applications which is pretty impressive as Johnson Johnson went in pretty heavy to protect many of their products in an extension not usually associated with “gifts”. Here are some of the more interesting .Gift Sunrise domain registrations: acclarent.gift actifed.gift acuvue.gift amazon.gift anthropologie.gift arizonastate.gift arizonastateuniversity.gift asp.gift audible.gift autozone.gift aveeno.gift babycenter.gift babycentre.gift baignoire.gift ballonbleu.gift band-aid.gift bandaid.gift baumeandmercier.gift bebe.gift benadryl.gift benadryl.gift bengay.gift benylin.gift biafine.gift biosensewebster.gift bmw.gift booking.gift cabochon.gift cada.gift calibredecartier.gift cam4.gift canvasprint.gift captivedecartier.gift carefree.gift careinspirescare.gift caressedorchidees.gift cartierdamour.gift cartierdelune.gift cartiernaturellement.gift celebrations.gift chanel.gift choo.gift chopard.gift chrome.gift cilag.gift classima.gift cleanandclear.gift clifton.gift cordis.gift davinci.gift daymatic.gift declaration.gift depuy.gift desitin.gift diamantslegers.gift discount.gift dollarshaveclub.gift doublesplit.gift doublesplit.gift dunhill.gift entrepreneur.gift f-1.gift f1grandprix.gift f1racing.gift f1racing.gift fire.gift formula1.gift goldcrown.gift goyard.gift guitar-center.gift guitarcenter.gift hallmark.gift hallmarkcards.gift hallmarkgoldcrown.gift hampton.gift happybirthday.gift healthsimple.gift hilfiger.gift holiday.gift home.gift imodium.gift industrie.gift intuit.gift jackdaniels.gift jaeger-lecoultre.gift jaeger-lecoultre.gift jandj.gift jimmychoo.gift jnj.gift johnson-johnson.gift johnsonandjohnson.gift johnsons.gift johnsonsbaby.gift johnsonskids.gift k-y.gift lactaid.gift lancel.gift lange.gift lego.gift lifescan.gift linea.gift listerine.gift lubriderm.gift luxury.gift markmonitor.gift merck.gift microsoft.gift mini.gift mitek.gift mobile.gift monticello.gift neosporin.gift neutrogena.gift next.gift nicoderm.gift nicorette.gift nomoretears.gift online.gift overseas.gift own.gift panerai.gift pasha.gift pashadecartier.gift patrimony.gift pepcid.gift photo.gift polo.gift polysporin.gift portofino.gift qvc.gift ralphlauren.gift reverso.gift roc.gift rogaine.gift rogerdubuis.gift samsung.gift santos.gift saxonia.gift sinutab.gift southerncomfort.gift splenda.gift standard.gift standardbank.gift starwalker.gift statefarm.gift statefarmbank.gift sudafed.gift summit.gift tank.gift tiffany.gift toledo.gift tommy.gift topgun.gift trinity.gift tucks.gift tudor.gift tylenol.gift vacheronconstantin.gift vanguard.gift vente-privee.gift vente-privee.gift visa.gift visine.gift winner.gift zappos.gift zyrtec.gift If ... read more ...
 
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.Tokyo To Go Live Jul 22nd & Anyone In The World Can Register One - According to a press release, GMO Internet Group company, GMO Registry, Inc. announced that  the new gTLD .Tokyo will be open for landrush applications starting on June 9th. General Availability will begin July 22nd. Sunrise period for trademark holders is already opened. Unlike some cities like New York’s .NYC, there are no residence or other nexus requirements to register a .Tokyo domain, meaning that anyone in the world can register a .tokyo domain name. “.tokyo is a domain that will represent ... read more ...
 
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Company Loses Battle to Get Critical Website Taken Down - There has been a lot of discussion about the coming .sucks new gtld and some of the potential pricing that could potentially come with it. Other extensions coming down the pipeline have gotten less publicity but certainly fall in a similar camp. .Fail,.Exposed,.Gripe and .WTF are all extensions that no company or person really wants to be associated with to the left of the dot. Brands IMO should not participate in regging their names in these extensions. The reason being is you cannot protect against ... read more ...
Sun 6th April 2014
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Uniregistry Reserved & Sunrise .Pics Domains You Won’t Be Able To Register - I went through the zone file for .Pics the next new gTLD of Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry that will go live on April 15th. The registry gets to reserve 100 domain for its own use in the operation and promotion of the registry so far Uniregistry has selected 64 of these which are: <![CDATA[]]>Sunrise registration for .Pics domain names closed on March 28th. Here are some of the more interesting domain registered during that period and will be not be available once general availability opens ... read more ...
Fri 4th April 2014
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Who Said There Would be No CyberSquatting In New gTLDs? googl.glass, gogle.glass, gooogle.glass Anyone? - Who said there would be no cybersquatting in the new gTLD space? Plenty of Google Glass typos were registered on the 1st day of general availability. Interestingly all of the registrations are public not under privacy leading me to conclude that there are just a lot of new “domainers” who don’t know anything about the laws, rules and restrictions around domain names. The new gTLD domain name goggle.glass was registered by someone in Ohio who used his real name. The domains: googl.glass gogle.glass Where ... read more ...
 
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After 1st Days After Registration The new gTLD Experience.Glass Is Suspended By The Registrar - Just noticed that the domain name Experience.Glass which was just registered on April 2nd 2014 under privacy has already been suspended. The registry, Donuts said that they did not suspend the domai,n so it must by the registrar which is in this case Godaddy. The domain name’s whois record was updated on April 3rd to the name severs: Name Server: ns1.suspended-for.spam-and-abuse.com Name Server: ns2.suspended-for.spam-and-abuse.com Believe me if your game is cybersquatting, phishing, spamming or ... read more ...
 
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Top 25 New gTLD By New Registration Yesterday - Here is a look at the top 25 new gTLD strings based on the number of new registrations yesterday as tracked by RegistrarStats.com: <![CDATA[]]> Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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National Public Radio Covers The New gTLD’s - Several new gTLD applicants were interviewed for a National Public Radio (NPR) News piece out today that covers the new gTLD’s. NPR interviewed the applicant for .Wed as well as Daniel Negari from .XYZ Daniel is quoted as saying “.Com is pretty crowded.” “We end the alphabet ends with XYZ so it makes perfect sense that domain names should end in .XYZ as well. Donuts Dan Schindler was interviewed for the piece as well as Tom Brackey. You can listen to the Segment by clicking here Google+Michael ... read more ...
Thu 3rd April 2014
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Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry Announces Affiliate Program - Frank Schilling Uniregistry registrar side of the business has just announced its affiliate program that promises to pay commission just not on new gTLD registrations but for renewals as well for the lifetime of the domain registration. Frank of course just didn’t announce the affiliate program but painted the picture of where we have been and were we are going in the domain space: “We get tens-of-thousands of banner clicks each day from hopeful dreamers like me, looking to buy the names of our ... read more ...
 
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Out of The 1,735 .Builders Domains These Are My Favorite - I didn’t try to acquire domain names in the new gTLD of  .Builders but I reviewed the zone file and found these 80 domains which are my favorite registrations in the TLD. According to ntldstats.com/tld there are 1,735 domain name registrations under .Builders making it the 50th most registered new gTLD. Some creative uses for the extension as well as traditional one’s:   <![CDATA[]]> Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Wed 2nd April 2014
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Stuart Lawley Chats About ICANN & The New gTLD’s On Cavuto Fox Business Show - Stuart Lawley the CEO of the ICM Registry, which operates the .XXX top level domain name extension and an applicant for .sex, .porn and .adult was interviewed by Cavuto, on Fox Business News, in a segment which lasted over five minutes. My favorite quote from the Story from Lawley on new gTLD’s in response to Cavuto’s question won’t the new gTLD’s be confusing to users: “There will be confusion, but in 3-5 years from now people will look at the internet very different and people will look ... read more ...
Tue 1st April 2014
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.NYC Go Live Scheduled for Oct 8th, 2014 - The launch policies for .NYC domain registry were just published by ICANN and they are lengthy. The “Plan has been developed to describe the Launch Program for the .nyc Top Level Domain (“TLD”) by The City of New York by and through the New York City Department of Information Technology Telecommunications (“Registry Operator”). Launch Schedule: The following is a brief overview of each of the periods that will be implemented in launching the TLD. These periods are described in ... read more ...
Sat 29th March 2014
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Oil.Center 11,000 GBP Bid on Sedo - Oil.Center was registered by a gentleman in Kuala Lumpur on 3/16/14 and is now on Sedo auctions with a day and a half left at 11,000 GBP.  There is only one bid which looks like the owner received the bid and pushed it to auction on 3/24/14. If its a legit bid, its kind of a ballsy move to send to auction, I personally would want to get that deal closed asap. I think if you have a legitimate buyer interested in something brand new like .center, you don’t want to allow time for buyer’s remorse ... read more ...
Fri 28th March 2014
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.CEO Registry Releases 42K Domains Held Back At Landrush Here Are Our Picks - The dotCEO Registry has just released 42,000 .CEO Premium Names, which were listed as “taken” during the dotCEO Landrush phase so they are now available for the 1st time, on a first come basis as general registration just opened for .CEO We went through the list pretty quickly and these are or favorites Each of these domains carry a premium renewal rate as indicated in most cases below, with the suggested retail price, however each registrar is allowed to set their own retail price which could ... read more ...
 
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.CEO General Availability Starts during Noon EST Today - PeopleBrowsr, owner of the registry operator for new Top Level Domain dotCEO, has announced General Availability for the new gTLD  . CEO domain addresses and identities will be available for purchase at Noon (EST) Today Friday, March 28th . dotCEO  is positioned as the only TLD to convey authority and power. Over the last few weeks 100 of the Fortune 500 registered their dotCEO domains. 3,000 individual CEOs are on the wait list. More than 45,000 premium dotCEO domains will be released. Jodee ... read more ...
Thu 27th March 2014
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After 1st Day Of Availability .Email Has12K Registrations & Becomes 7th Most Popular New gtTLD - .Email is stilling just short of 12,000 registrations after its first full day of General Availability. According to ntldstats.com .Email zoomed past .Company to become the 7th most registered new gTLD to date. The 2nd most popular new gTLD released this week after the first day of registrations is .Solutions which got just short of 7,000 registrations. There are now over 386,000 new gTLD registrations according to ntldstats.com and while the top 3 .Guru, .Berlin and Photography represent over 30% ... read more ...